Is lock down making you lazy.....

Bigjohn- ??

Afraid to buy eggs too at moment- so many recalls on shop bought ones for salmonella? and as for 'doing things'- i exerted myself yesterday just trying to destroy all the empty packaging & boxes that had built up (had stuff for xmas gifts delivered recently,& sons had new computer monitors& stuff for car delivered etc.) That's the trouble with just 'parking' parcels& leaving them a few days, they build up! So i did that, took ages as am in slow-mode due to osteoarthritis, & was fair jiggered? so have also been trying to knock on with blanket I'm knitting for youngest DD for xmas (she saw her brothers i knitted in first lockdown!) and i nodded off knitting! )??Maybe we all need to hibernate like bears?

Lilyflower

Get a Fitbit and do 10,000 steps a day.
Have a daily 'To Do' list and cross off things as you do them.
Decorate a room.
Read a book, so many pages a day.
Make a fuss about meals: set the table, add some ceremony.
Have tasks and rewards, i.e., no TV until the Hoovering is done.
Routines and habits bring focus and prevent apathy.

Nice ideas x

For those still relatively fit, feeling bored and at a loss, there are plenty of jobs on offer at online and supermarket distribution centres. Being made redundant in June due to the Covid crisis I like many others have taken up such work as demand in many such centres has literally gone through the roof.

We are constantly hearing of the constantly rising numbers of unemployed due to the Coronavirus crisis and yet the worlds largest online retailer "who I have found myself working for" has been extensively advertising job roles in their fulfilment centres and yet finding there are very few takers.

Despite widespread views to the contrary the work can be well paid especially if an applicant is prepared to work unsocial hours and at weekends etc. We see constantly see on the TV news musicians, actors dancers and other production people moaning that they have no work and are getting little support. Well, my advise to them along with many I work alongside of is "get your backside into gear and go along to one of those centres and get yourselves employed".

But of courses, manual work in such places is far below many of those doing all the moaning.

Get a Fitbit and do 10,000 steps a day.
Have a daily 'To Do' list and cross off things as you do them.
Decorate a room.
Read a book, so many pages a day.
Make a fuss about meals: set the table, add some ceremony.
Have tasks and rewards, i.e., no TV until the Hoovering is done.
Routines and habits bring focus and prevent apathy.

I am finding that this time round, I lack the motivation to do anything and so do lots of friends. Not being able to potter in the garden doesn't help!
I have planted sweet pea seeds indoors and ordered tomato, pepper, chilli and aubergine seeds to plant indoors in January, but that is the best I can manage, along with indoor winter herbs - can only suggest that you try the same. Good luck.

Lockdown couldn't make me lazy as I've always been lazy, especially around chores. I could procrastinate for England, and often don't function at all until a deadline is close. I do agree though that this time is harder because of the time of year, and for me because I retired at the end of October so there is less structure than before. I have made myself a 'To Do' list. I try to cross something off every day though I often add more than I cross off! But even small achievements make me feel better. I've just noticed the sun has come out so perhaps I'll venture out soon. The garden needs work still and every time I considered it this week it was raining.

I am certainly slower in completing tasks
I'm slower anyway nowadays but it's getting started that is my problem!
Actually, if I get fed up with something, finishing a task is a problem too.

travelsafar I can understand how you feel if you should have been on a wonderful holiday.

The is out today! It looks a bit more inviting outside.

I am so pleased I am not on my own feeling lazy, a thing I hate to be, lazy.Try to have one project a day,but it seldom happens,up at 9am, wander around in dressing gown to about 11 am, then panic and get dressed quickly in case someone calls! thats not very likely though, Tomorrow maybe better

This feeling has hit so many of us out of the blue Nannan. I was keeping going, feeling positive and relieved so much negativity falling on us was thankfully, not, affecting my mental health but I really have been knocked for six trying to deal with this unfamiliar mindset.

I got like this quite quickly whilst living alone and shielding during first lockdown and had to have a strong word with myself and set a structure to my day e.g a bit of housework each day instead of a weekly blitz, a quota of gardening, reading, crafting, in the garden and keeping in touch. Fed up of the same meals I took to entering ingredients in the fridge in google and came up with new recipes to try. I’ve got the same schedule this time (minus garden) but have the pleasure of bi weekly visits from my son as my support bubble.

No. I was lazy tobegin with.

I don’t know if I am lazier, but I am certainly slower in completing tasks. This is partly due to making them last to fill my time and to do this I am paying more attention to detail.
My biggest problem is that I can’t plan ahead just now to visit family or go on holiday. Therefore, there is little to look forward to.
On the plus side, I have discovered the joy of walking which I could see no attraction in before. Every cloud....

I'm usually quite a 'glass half- full' type but really its all been a bit much for a lot of us this year- and light at the end of the tunnel if this vaccine works, but would be happier if they had had longer to be testing it out first- i think they're running before they can walk really?

Uncertain times.

biba, I have never suffered with depression, true or otherwise. What I and as you have read, many are are going through is a slump, due to wading through unknown territory in such uncertain types.

Thank you for your kind thoughts and indeed the terrible weather plays a big part in our psyche. What a pity then that you couldn’t help but mention what a glorious sunny day you are having in your country. You may think I am being a bit harsh but, on a thread where I may read how down people are feeling and the bad weather, which is making matters worse, was perhaps a bit tactless.

I was finding life difficult and was frequently still in my pj's at 10.30 in the morning. So two weeks ago I started setting the alarm for 7.00 am, and it has made a big difference. I don't necessarily get up at that time, usually around 8 am, but I'm breakfasted and dressed ready for the day around 9 am, so have longer mornings to do some work and catch up with things. It's made such a difference to how I feel.

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Hetty- yes am a great believer in lists! You're right, its the getting round to the things on them that's the trouble? I was ok first lockdown, got a few things done, but have not much motivation this time- but i guess with bad weather too there's not as much inclination?

Same Maddyone-its going to be bloody depressing if this is how it is for rest of my life im only 57! Hopefully ive ages left yet but if we darent go anywhere or do anything its going to be hard going isnt it?! Yes maddyone in pj's a lot these days!?im having quick brew then going to start lunch.?Honestly, all my lads (21&17) seem to do is lurch from one mealtime to next.?(so guess it effects them too)

Alioop, my dog won't walk in it either. I only got to the end of the road, yesterday, and she decided that light drizzle was enough to turn and head home. What a wimp!

Coconut, the lists, I have several (kitchen, mantelpiece, by the computer and coat pocket) - oh yes, I'm brilliant at writing lists. What I have great trouble with, is actually doing stuff and ticking things off!

I think, in fact, the lists are getting longer!

Not really made me lazy, I still get up at a "decent" time and showered, dressed. Try to keep to a routine. But it's easier because I'm living with DH and daughter who is working from home. It must be much easier to slide a bit when you live alone. The situation is making me feel a bit depressed though. And eating too much, and more sweet things than before.

I’m just pleased to hear from everyone on here that we aren’t the only ones struggling. We really have little to complain about which just makes me feel worse. I cannot stand much more of being indoors, stuck together 24:7. My DH doesn’t sleep well so the day is starting around 11. Maybe midday he will go in the shed for a few hours. Every morning I wake and wonder what day it is. Even I am sleeping later. Hate the short days and dark nights at the best of times. Miss people, my kind de, my grandchildren and my social
Life. Trying to keep busy but really there’s only so much tidying and cooking you can do. Have lost the motivation to walk every day as I’m fed up with going up and down the same roads......when will this end.

Yes, I find I’m doing less and less as the weeks wear on. I’m trying to rationalise this as change of season or lockdown blues but I would like to see light at the end of the tunnel.

Kalu, I am sorry to hear and know I am very lucky that I have never suffered from true depression. My sympathy does indeed go to anyone who feels they just cannot motivate themselves in the current situation- and I am sure the terrible weather does not help.

I can't help it, but it is another gorgeous day up here, bright sunny and warm (for time of year, 15C) - and I shall be out most of the day. Not boasting- but it is the title of the thread.

Just signed up for a 6 months professional on-line course in acupressure to keep me busy when weather turns and I can't be out there on xc skis or on the slopes. I have been learning from the beginning of the year, and it is fascinating and just as effective as acupuncture, and works in the same way. I shall get certification in the Spring. Sharing the course with a young British friend who is a young mum and unemployed at the mo.